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Pennsylvania Ballet's "Carmen'
Don José: Victim, villain or jerk?
The opening scene of Roland Petit's Carmen suggests immense bottled-up passion and lust. Unfortunately, that passion is never released in the ballet's remaining two scenes.
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Paul Taylor at Annenberg (1st review)
Paul Taylor, between the body and the spirit
Paul Taylor has been choreographing for more than half a century— long enough to gently tweak the pretensions of modern dance even as he seriously examines the interplay between the spiritual and the carnal.
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Nichole Canuso's "Takes' at the Fringe (1st review)
Anatomy of a relationship
This inventive portrayal of a couple's relationship, as seen from several perspectives, is less important than the expression of feelings and the visceral movement of bodies. Dito van Reigersberg and Nichole Canuso are so convincing as a couple that we're rarely aware of them as performers.
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JérÓ´me Bel's "Cédric Andrieux' at Fringe Festival
A dancer's interior life
In his relentless quest for honest connection between dancers and audience, choreographer JérÓ´me Bel asks the veteran dancer Cédric Andrieux to shed his stage artifice and instead peer deeply into his own soul— to think about his life as a dancer and confront the question of why he does what he does.
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Childs's "Dance' and Koner's "Farewell' at the Fringe (1st
Back to the future: The return of Childs and Koner
Two revivals— of Lucinda Childs's Dance and Pauline Koner's The Farewell— revealed how outstanding works of art retain their power over time. The two pieces also demonstrate why revivals deserve a presence in performance-focused festivals.
Dance (1979). Choreographed by Lucinda Childs, with music by Philip Glass and film by Sol LeWitt. September 9-12, 2010 at Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center, Broad and Spruce Sts. www.livearts-fringe.org/details.cfm?id=12736.
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Kun-Yang Lin's quest: Connecting body to soul
Now to connect the body to the soul
The innovative choreographer Kun-Yang Lin has launched a daring dance workshop that seeks to transcend mere movement by getting inside dancers' souls as well. It's a fresh approach with the potential to galvanize today's sometimes forgettable world of dance.
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BalletX Summer program at the Wilma (2nd review)
On a mission to redefine ballet
Choreographers can please a crowd in one of two ways: Give the audience something everyone can relate to, or seduce them with a work that's irresistible. The two tremendous world premieres in BalletX's recent Summer Series provided one of each.
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BalletX Summer program at the Wilma (1st review)
It's all about movement
BalletX celebrated its fifth anniversary with a program demonstrating just how sophisticated this small troupe of ten has become within a short time period. It was especially good to see Matthew Neenan back to being his movement funky self again.
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The dance season: Nine highlights
In search of honest generosity: A backward glance at the dance season
Whether because of the economy or burnout, Philadelphia's 2010 dance season was thinner and weaker than in past years, in terms of intelligent dancers opening themselves to the choreographer's vision and then channeling it to us. Merilyn Jackson finds nine encouraging exceptions.
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Pennsylvania Ballet's "Romeo and Juliet'
Who needs Shakespeare?
Shakespeare may be history's greatest playwright, but the Pennsylvania Ballet's current production of Romeo and Juliet proves that we don't need a great writer to tell a great story.
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